Values: American Trade Ambassador Jamieson lays out new Hamilton-based Trade Policy to WEF in Davos
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Values: American Trade Ambassador Jamieson lays out new Hamilton-based Trade Policy to WEF in Davos
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Takeaways from our Audience
Tariffs as a Policy Tool?
Jamieson says that he supports tariffs as a policy tool, with illegal immigration, people buying Russian oil, etc.
How will this affect our America First, not America alone?
If tariffs are used against every country that we disagree with, what are the long term effects if countries just stop buying from us? Are we self sustained enough that we can afford that?
Only time will tell!
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Loading...Finding Balance
”A country that structurally exports more than it imports, is benefitting off of other countries to serve its own growth”
Finding a balance between supporting our own American workers while also respecting the sovereignty of other nations will be an interesting battle.
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Loading...Early Key Players
Alexander Hamilton: Creator of the American system; First Secretary of the Treasury; established the National Bank; combined tariffs and subsidies to help grow America.
Henry Clay: Took up Hamilton’s project, continued advocating to the government for tariffs and policies that would help grow America from the inside.
Henry Carey and Abraham Lincoln: Advocates for the American system during the Civil War, wanted the South to break away from the colonial system where cotton would be sent to Britain.
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Loading...Patterson, NJ
Our first example of how Hamilton’s system directly benefits the American economy. Once we switched to free trade, small manufacturing cities like Patterson suffered. Instead of building things for America, we were providing those same things to other countries.
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